Pays de la Loire Tour: Coquard regains GC lead with stage 3 victory

MAYENNE FRANCE APRIL 06 Bryan Coquard of France and Team Cofidis celebrates at finish line as stage winner during the 1st Region Pays de la Loire Tour 2023 Stage 3 a 1971km stage from BaugenAnjou to Mayenne on April 06 2023 in Mayenne France Photo by Dario BelingheriGetty Images
Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) wins stage 3 and regains GC lead at Pays de la Loire Tour (Image credit: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)

Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) outkicked Marijn van den Berg (EF Education-EasyPost) at the line and won stage 3 of Pays de la Loire Tour. Alexander Kamp (Tudor Pro Cycling) took third from a small bunch sprint.

With the Frenchman’s second victory in the four-day stage race, he moved back into the GC lead.

Jackie Tyson
North American Production editor

Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some mtb rides in Park City, Utah (USA).

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